Viv Groskop

Viv Groskop is a journalist, author, cultural critic, and comedian. A graduate of Cambridge University and the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Observer, and the Mail on Sunday and has written for many other publications. She is the author of The Anna Karenina Fix.

The Weirdos of Russian Literature

On the Foibles of Genius, From Tolstoy to Akhmatova

November 2, 2018 By Viv Groskop

Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita

Or, How to Be Happy With Russian Literature

October 16, 2018 By Viv Groskop

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